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against Japan, 17.3; contribution to victory, 18.1, 26.4; favours early landings in France, 18.2; casualties in Italy, 18.3, 18.4; anti-Semitism, 20.1; popular view of Germans, 20.2; presses for invasion of Europe, 21.1; infantry weapons, 21.2; noncooperation with Britain in Asia, 22.1; closes ring on Japan, 22.2; army’s behaviour in Europe, 23.1; army faces Ardennes offensive (winter 1944–5), 23.2; army meets Russians at Torgau, 24.1; war weariness, 25.1; develops atomic bomb, 25.2; low human cost of war, 26.5; operational relationship with British, 26.6

United States Army Air Force (USAAF): strategy in Pacific, 17.1; bomber offensive against Germany, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5; losses, 19.6, 19.7, 19.8, 19.9; strength, 19.10; bases in England, 19.11; bombs Japanese mainland, 25.1

United States Marine Corps: at Guadalcanal, 10.1, 10.2; strength increased, 10.3; casualties, 10.4, 25.1, 26.1; landing craft, 14.1; in Pacific, 14.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 22.1, 22.2; qualities, 17.4; at Iwo Jima, 25.2; on Okinawa, 25.3, 25.4; achievements, 26.2

United States Navy: in Pacific, 10.1, 10.2; power, 10.3; torpedo inaccuracies, 10.4; quality of crews, 26.1; officer corps, 10.5; defeat at Savo, 10.6; Pacific strategy, 17.1, 17.2; growth, 17.3; number of planes, 19.1; dominance in Pacific, 22.1, 22.2; submarine successes and losses, 22.3; Japanese kamikaze attacks on, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3; and damage control, 25.4; achievements, 26.2; casualties, 26.3 VESSELS: Astoria (cruiser), 10.7, 10.8; Bagley (destroyer), 10.9; Bunker Hill (carrier), 25.5; Chicago (cruiser), 10.10; Enterprise (carrier), 8.1, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, 10.15, 10.16, 25.6; Essex (carrier), 25.7; Franklin (carrier), 9.1; Hornet (carrier), 10.17, 10.18, 10.19, 10.20, 10.21; Intrepid (carrier), 25.8; Juneau (cruiser), 10.22, 10.23; Lexington (carrier), 10.24; Manila Bay (carrier), 22.4; Missouri (battleship), 25.9; North Carolina (battleship), 10.25; Paterson (destroyer), 10.26; Princeton (carrier), 26.4; Quincy (cruiser), 10.27; Saratoga (carrier), 10.28, 22.5; South Dakota (battleship), 10.29; Spearfish (submarine), 10.30; Vincennes (cruiser), 10.31; Wainwright (destroyer), 11.1; Washington (battleship), 10.32; Wasp (carrier), 10.33; Yorktown (carrier), 10.34, 10.35, 10.36, 10.37

Uprichard, Sgt. Bill

Uranus, Operation (Russia), 12.1

Urbanowicz, Witold, 1.1, 1.2

U Saw

Ushijima, Gen. Mitsuru

Ustaše (Croatia), 16.1, 18.1, 18.2

Utah beach, Normandy, 21.1

V-weapons (Germany), 13.1, 19.1

Vallicella, Vittorio, 5.1, 5.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3

Vasilevsky, Marshal Aleksandr, 12.1, 15.1, 24.1, 26.1

Vass, Dénes

Vatutin, Nikolai, 15.1, 16.1

Vavin, Nikolai

VE-Day (8 May 1945)

Vendetta, HMAS (destroyer), 9.1

Veritable, Operation, 24.1

Vértessy, Col. János

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy

Vienna

Vierkom, Karl-Gottfried

Vietminh movement (Indochina)

Vietnam

Vistula, river

Vlasov, Lt. Gen. Andrey

Volga Germans: deported in Russia

Volga, river: freezes

Völkischer Beobachter (Nazi newspaper), 1.1

Voronezh, 12.1, 12.2

Voroshilov, Gen. Kliment

Vorster, John

Wacht (German army newspaper), 23.1

Wade, Robert

Wagner, Gen. Eduard, 3.1, 6.1, 20.1

Wainwright, Gen. Jonathan

Walcheren

Waldheim, Kurt

Waldron, Lt. Cmdr. John

Wallenberg, Raoul

Wallis, Barnes

Walters, Anne-Marie

Walther, SS Panzergrenadier Herbert

Wannsee conference (1942)

war crimes: punishments for

Warlimont, Gen. Walter

Warsaw: destroyed and occupied by Germans, 1.1; Hitler visits, 1.2; ghetto, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3; uprising (1944), 21.1, 23.1

Washington summit (May 1943)

Waskow, Capt. Henry

Watson, Lt. Robert

Waugh, Evelyn, 1.1, 4.1, 13.1, 18.1

Wavell, Gen. Sir Archibald (later 1st Earl): Middle East command, 5.1; in Egypt, 5.2, 5.3; mounts offensive against Italians, 5.4; troops sent to Greece, 5.5; orders to Neame, 5.6; and evacuation of Greece, 5.7; and expedition to Iraq, 5.8; sends force to Syria, 5.9; failed offensive against Rommel, 5.10; loses Middle East command, 5.11; numbers of troops, 5.12; and defence and fall of Singapore, 9.1; and proposed shooting of Australian deserters,